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The Flipside timeline indicats 150 years in.

Thanks to your team's previous efforts, we have slipped TOL enough production capability to manufacture actual modern weapons. Due to the accelerated timeline in the Flipside simulation, they have finally managed to advance those weapons past the state-of-the-art in our reality, despite still firmly holding the Idiot Ball otherwise.

The bad news: a memetic immune system response has been triggered, and the skills that we have imported are fading, replaced for some reason by a thorough knowledge of basic farming and carpentry and a desire to ply them.

We believe that the best way to stymie this is to arrange for a very public demo of the new assets, to make it extremely hard to fade from consciousness. Since we do not trust the mentally weak specimens that TOL passes as field agents with what is still a prototype run, this is where you come in.

Your mission is to show us, the TOL leadership, and anyone within a horizon of your deployment zone the capabilities of the DONG3R-class high mobility ground vehicle.

Each DONG3R (Dynamic Omni-Navigating Gear for Recon, Raid and Retaliation) is prepped for a sustained assault on enemy positions. Both the primary chassis and the escape ovoid are fully lightning-proof; integrated accelerometers and linear motors allow for the same maneuverability as a main battle tank in the open, sacrificing only a modicum of speed for the ability to climb over obstacles. The DONG3R is intended to be used primarily in urban combat; the standard chassis is built to accept a variety of combat options to suit each individual fighter.

This prototype run has a pick of a GAU-8 minigun salvaged from wrecked Thunderbolt aircraft, an arm-mounted 90mm cannon, a back-mounted 155mm artillery piece, a hypercapacitor array with ionizing laser for redirecting any divine lightning that comes your way, a 40mm fully automatic grenade launcher, a battery of GPS guided smart mortars, and a Kinetic Strike Module featuring tungsten "brass knuckle" thermal lances for close-up demolition work. Each DONG3R can mount three of these systems (the 155mm autocannon counts as two due to the weight of the stabilization hydraulics), loadout to be chosen by the operator before deployment.

In cruise mode, the DONG3R is controlled by a pair of joysticks for the lower and upper body respectively; in combat mode, the joysticks are used for weapon control and the movements of the soldier's feet and forearm are directly copied by the main hydraulics.

Field agents, you are sitting on 20000 horsepower of nitro-boosted war machine. The ignition key is to your left. Your mission is extremely simple: there is no time for subtlety. You will be deployed on the outskirts of a medium-size town from which our TOL allies have recently been violent expelled. Go forth. Cause enough mayhem that it will never be forgotten.